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Melted By Heat


Melted By Heat
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Copyright: Grzegorz Wieczorek (red45) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2831 W: 75 N: 8025] (26865)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-15
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon Powershot S2-IS
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/800 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-07-15 8:59
Viewed: 590
Points: 32
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Today is very nice summer day. About 40C degrees and full sun. Most people are almost dead, but not me, of course, not me ;-) I love such weather. I took my cam, wore my hat and went to three hours long walt to Botanic Garden. Even insects were knocked unconsious by heat. Only butterflies left, but they didn't open wings to reduce surface exposed to sunrays. Very clever beasts :-) I was walking on paths, sorry, no paths - rivers of melted asphalt and I was quite happy. Not many people around and at last REAL summer. As I said it was impossible to take picture of inner surface of butterflies' wings so I choose this one - Inachis Io on my favourite Echinacea. I like composition - only slihouette of insects and flower in full colours. Background is very suitable - it looks like desert burnt by the sun. Perfect visualisation of this hot day :-)

ellis49, LordPotty, Proframe, JORAPAVI, SelenE, valy67, vanderschelden, XOTAELE, livios, AndyB has marked this note useful
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  • Deeno Silver Star Critiquer [C: 17 W: 0 N: 0] (110)
  • [2007-07-15 9:13]

Malo kolorowy ten motyl ;)
Gornolotnie powiem, ze to zdjecie zmusza do chocby krotkiej zadumy.
Ciekawe ujecie.

Hi Greg,
if it's too hot for you, I can send up some snow picrure;-)
Nice close-up with fine compos and DOF.
The detaila are also fine and the colours as well.
Only a small nit, the small part of the flower up in the left corner is a bit distracting in the otherwise clean BG.
Well done, my friend.

Hi Greg,
what can be better that a Echinacea-Flower, I love them - so what's better - such a flower with a butterfly on it ;-) A wonderful motive, I like it very much, thanks
Sabine - wishnugaruda

Witam Grzesiu!
Cos mi sie widzi, ze poki co to bedzie moj ostatni komentarz do Twej fotki przed wyjazdem wiec troszke popisze :)
Ciekawa kompozycja, mimo, ze dosc typowa dla zdjec z motylkami. Do tego ladne zdjecie kolorystycznie, zarowno cieple barwy tla jak i bardziej agresywne kolory kwatu. W calosci to daje zywa kompozycje i oto chodzi :)
Brawo takze za "timining", motyl z wysunieta trabka wyglada naprawde super. Ostrosc, glebia i nasycenia jak zawsze bardzo udane.
A co do pogody, to skoro tak lubisz upaly, to najblizszy tydzien bedzie Ci sie z pewnoscia podobal ;>
Serdecznosci i do uslyszenia w sierpniu!
Radek

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  • Kaszek Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 262 W: 58 N: 390] (1447)
  • [2007-07-15 15:05]

Czesc!
Faktycznie upalny weekend sie nam trafil. I dobrze ;)
Swietna kompozycja. Kolorki miodne, ostrosc OK.
No i Deeno sie "zadumal". Na krotko, ale zawsze.
To wiele znaczy ;)

Hi Greg,
Lovely silhouette of this Inachis on an Echinacea. I love these flowers too.
I cannot imagine being in such heat.
I lived on Niue Island in the Pacific when I was a kid and it was hot there, but now I can't handle temperatures much over 30 (24 is ideal for me)
I doesn't get very hot here on the coast, but it doesn't get too cold either.
Suits me well.
Nice work.
Steve

Hello Grzegorz,
Pffffffffffff..............don't want to think of going out myself with such heat. I hate it, but am glad you don't :)
Like thi image very much although it's not showing the more colorful part of the butterfly.
Love the contrast between the darker wing of the butterfly, colorful flower and wonderful soft BG.
The flower and butterfly do stand out greatly against the lighter BG.
Sharpness, details, POV and exposure are perfect.
Personally though, I would have cloned out the small pink spot top left because in my opinion it dos distrect a little and is leading the eye of the main subject, but that's just my opinion ofcourse :)
Also love the vertical line of the flower and butterfly very much.
Thanks for sharing.
Best wishes,
Harry

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 929 W: 4 N: 2322] (10812)
  • [2007-07-16 1:17]

Nice close up and lovely composition. Welldone TFS Ganesh

Hola Grzegorz,
Una imagen de muy bella composición, excelente nitidez y detalles con luz, colores y fondo magníficos, TFS. Saludos
José Ramón

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  • SelenE Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2352 W: 61 N: 3814] (12240)
  • [2007-07-16 4:47]

Hi Greg,
Lovely capture of this butterfly with a great POV, compostion, focus, sharpness and lighting. TFS
Best wishes,
Selen

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3453 W: 144 N: 5902] (17490)
  • [2007-07-16 22:17]

My favourite Inachis Io on my favourite Echinacea too! The silhouette does look good, but the flower looks even better.
Good one Greg, and I can see you swimming on the melted asphalt with not a care in the world!
Kia ora
Janice

Hello Greg !
It's been a long time since I last visited your gallery, and there are many wonerful pictures ! I really like the description you hae made in your note, so different from France whre we have only rain, clouds and thunderstorms - sun becomes very rare, here. As for the picture, it is excellent, as always. Excellent details, wonderful composition, and the BG is awesome, such a lovely color ! Very well done !
Valerie.

Hello Greg,
Nice compo. Excellent background.
Well done
TFS
Annick

Hola Grzegorz.
Fantástica iluminación que resalta los buenos detalles de esta fotografía.
Una nota bastante buena.
Saludos, JL.

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  • livios Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2306 W: 324 N: 4306] (16856)
  • [2007-08-04 18:23]

Grzegorz, great colors, bg and dof.

I enjoy sharpness and composition too. Great contrast and saturation.

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  • AndyB Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1592 W: 32 N: 1361] (3978)
  • [2007-08-08 11:49]

hello Greg,
Nice to be viewing your gallery of work again!
I forgot what summer is like,its been very wet here :-(
This is a nice capture of this butterfly on a flower i've seen many times in your gallery.
A well composed,colourful and very detailed shot.
TFS

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